Gary Trousdale

Gary A. Trousdale (born June 8, 1960) is an American film director known for directing movies such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn.

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• TTTS Interview with Director Gary Trousdale 15th Anniversary for ATLANTIS THE LOST EMPIRE
• Filmography
• Collaborations
• References

Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in 1982 to design storyboards and do other animation. He then went to work designing restaurant menus and t-shirts.

Trousdale was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1985 as an effects animator on The Black Cauldron. He gained true prominence in his field with the success of his animated film directorial debut Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a LAFCA Award. He later directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996. In 2001 he directed Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In 2006, He directed Romeo: A Dog's Tale which released on April 28, 2006, it stars two actors from Atlantis, Michael J. Fox and Cree Summer along with Minnie Driver, Sir Ben Kingsley, Jim Broadbent, Rupert Everett, Laurence Fishburne, Kiefer Sutherland, Dwayne Johnson, Emilie de Ravin, Jim Breuer, Rachael Taylor, and Others.

He moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects such as The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Shrek the Halls and more recently Scared Shrekless.